A US airline will transport passengers in flying electric taxis.
United Airlines is planning to buy 200 air taxis, which it hopes will transport passengers to the airport over the next five years. One of the largest US airlines is among the first major carriers to commit to buying air taxis. United Airlines is also investing $1.1 billion as a stake in the Archer air taxi company to develop their fleet.
UPS has agreed with development company Beta Technologies to purchase ten 635-kilogram electric-powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which will be available from 2024, and later expand its fleet to 150 units.
While Volocopter, Lilium and many others have been developing their take-off and landing electric planes (eVTOL) in public for years, reporting all the news immediately, Joby Aviation of California has managed to stay almost completely under the radar so far.
The British government has chosen the Urban Air Port Air-One consortium to carry out the Future Flight Challenge program.
Within a decade, technological advances could profoundly subvert urban transport. Unmanned, take-off and landing aircraft, eVTOLs, can come.
For the first time in the world, the Japanese Cartivator can carry a passenger with an electric powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, the Sky Drive. It is planned that the plane can first fly with a pilot and one passenger, but later can carry up to two passengers autonomously.